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Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

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-- Sarah Hoyt

Russian digital forensics firm Elcomsoft has found that Apple’s mobile devices automatically send a user’s call history to the company’s servers if iCloud is enabled — but the data gets uploaded in many instances without user choice or notification.

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That's why I disable every Cloud-something in every product I own. Cortana, Steam cloud, Origin cloud... my data reside on my machine, Internet shortage don't cost me functionality EVER (my country has 40% of surface not covered by broadband and part of the population can't ahve the phone line either so the possibility of ending up without connection for months or years is always at the door) and noone can put its silmy hands on the data I don't explicitly share.

This is the exception in my case. But I don't have any personal / economical data inside. I only play free games there. The few games I have bought, I installed them from CD / DVD, no need of cloud.

M.D.V.

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I mean, in itself the feature is actually nice. Just recently bought a new phone, restored the previous phone's iCloud backup to it and instead of the call list being empty I can see all the calls made on the previous device. I would assume this is the intended scenario for the feature and not "theft". Maybe I'm just naive though. On the other hand I have just checked the backup settings and there is indeed no switch to indicate this is going to happen, which is somewhat worrisome.

Google senior security engineer Darren Bilby has asked fellow hackers to expend less effort on tools like antivirus and intrusion detection to instead research more meaningful defences such as whitelisting applications.

You go ahead and whitelist all the script code you allow to run on your network

Pity is... that 90% of people deciding if someone get a job or not are not qualified for that, so yes... certifications do "impress" them and open more doors, even when some certifications are not more useful than to wipe your ass with them.

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I have on my resume "microservices". At a recent interview (I got the job, BTW), they asked me about my experience with microservices. I said the truth -- I put that phrase on my resume as a kind of resume cannon fodder to attract searches, and that my experience with microservices is pretty much summed up by my architectural approaches (I refered them to my Higher Order Programming website and articles) -- small, modular components and semantic computing and that the hoopla around microservices is well, hoopla, it's actually just good architecture.

Lots of nods of agreement.

It probably also helped that for once, the people I was interviewing with had actually perused my articles. You'd be surprised how many interviewers, when asked "did you look at my websites and my Code Project articles" answer "no."

So I think (and I might do it on my blog) there should be a list of do's and don't's for interviewers beyond the usual discrimation questions they're not supposed to ask.

Marc

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there should be a list of do's and don't's for interviewers beyond the usual discrimation questions they're not supposed to ask.

indeed. And some of them should show a certification in interviewing skills

M.D.V.

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The man has never come across an linear search of an array, never mind post 1950's constructs like maps or dictionaries? That if statement is truly shocking. I would discipline a working coder for making it.